Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-34

  Willer, Cristen J ^a   Speliotes, Elizabeth K ^b,c   Loos, Ruth J F ^d   Li, Shengxu ^d   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^e   Heid, Iris M ^f   Berndt, Sonja I ^g   Elliott, Amanda L ^b,h   Jackson, Anne U ^a   Lamina, Claudia ^f   Lettre, Guillaume ^h,i   Lim, Noha ^j   Lyon, Helen N ^c,i   McCarroll, Steven A ^b,h   Papadakis, Konstantinos ^k   Qi, Lu ^l,m   Randall, Joshua C ^e   Roccasecca, Rosa Maria ⁿ   Sanna, Serena ^o   Scheet, Paul ^a   Weedon, Michael N ^p   Wheeler, Eleanor ⁿ   Zhao, Jing Hua ^d   Jacobs, Leonie C ^q   Prokopenko, Inga ^e,r   Soranzo, Nicole ^n,s   Tanaka, Toshiko ^t   Timpson, Nicholas J ^u   Almgren, Peter ^v   Bennett, Amanda ^w   Bergman, Richard N ^x   Bingham, Sheila A ^y,z   Bonnycastle, Lori L ^aa   Brown, Morris ^ab   Burtt, Noël P ^h   Chines, Peter ^aa   Coin, Lachlan ^ac   Collins, Francis S ^aa   Connell, John M ^ad   Cooper, Cyrus ^ae   Smith, George Davey ^u   Dennison, Elaine M ^ae   Deodhar, Parimal ^aa   Elliott, Paul ^ac   Erdos, Michael R ^aa   Estrada, Karol ^q   Evans, David M ^u   Gianniny, Lauren ^h   Gieger, Christian ^f   Gillson, Christopher J ^d   Guiducci, Candace ^h   Hackett, Rachel ^h   Hadley, David ^k   Hall, Alistair S ^af   Havulinna, Aki S ^ag   Hebebrand, Johannes ^ah   Hofman, Albert ^q   Isomaa, Bo ^ai   Jacobs, Kevin B ^aj   Johnson, Toby ^ak,al,am   Jousilahti, Pekka ^ag   Jovanovic, Zorica ^d,ab   Khaw, Kay Tee ^an   Kraft, Peter ^l   Kuokkanen, Mikko ^h,ag   Kuusisto, Johanna ^ao   Laitinen, Jaana ^ap   Lakatta, Edward G ^aq   Luan, Jian'an ^d   Luben, Robert N ^an   Mangino, Massimo ^ar   McArdle, Wendy L ^u   Meitinger, Thomas ^f,as   Mulas, Antonella ^o   Munroe, Patricia B ^at   Narisu, Narisu ^aa   Ness, Andrew R ^u   Northstone, Kate ^u   O'Rahilly, Stephen ^d,ab   Purmann, Carolin ^d,ab   Rees, Matthew G ^aa   Ridderstråle, Martin ^au   Ring, Susan M ^u   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^q   Ruokonen, Aimo ^av   Sandhu, Manjinder S ^d,an   Saramies, Jouko ^aw   Scott, Laura J ^a   Scuteri, Angelo ^ax   Silander, Kaisa ^ag   Sims, Matthew A ^d   Song, Kijoung ^j   Stephens, Jonathan ^ay   Stevens, Suzanne ^ar   Stringham, Heather M ^a   Tung, Y C Loraine ^d,ab   Valle, Timo T ^ag   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^q   Vimaleswaran, Karani S ^d,an   Vollenweider, Peter ^az   Waeber, Gerard ^az   Wallace, Chris ^at   Watanabe, Richard M ^x   Waterworth, Dawn M ^j   Watkins, Nicholas ^ay   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^q   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^e   Zhai, Guangju ^s   Zillikens, M Carola ^q   Altshuler, David ^b,h   Caulfield, Mark J ^at   Chanock, Stephen J ^g   Farooqi, I Sadaf ^d,ab   Ferrucci, Luigi ^t   Guralnik, Jack M ^t   Hattersley, Andrew T ^p   Hu, Frank B ^l,m   Jarvelin, Marjo Riitta ^ac   Laakso, Markku ^ao   Mooser, Vincent ^j   Ong, Ken K ^d   Ouwehand, Willem H ^n,ay   Salomaa, Veikko ^ag   Samani, Nilesh J ^ar   Spector, Timothy D ^s   Tuomi, Tiinamaija ^ba,bb   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^ag   Uda, Manuela ^o   Uitterlinden, André G ^q   Wareham, Nicholas J ^d   Deloukas, Panagiotis ⁿ   Frayling, Timothy M ^p   Groop, Leif C ^v,bb   Hayes, Richard B ^g   Hunter, David J ^h,l,m   Mohlke, Karen L ^bc   Peltonen, Leena ^h,n,bb   Schlessinger, David ^t   Strachan, David P ^k   Wichmann, H Erich ^f,bd   McCarthy, Mark I ^e,r,be   Boehnke, Michael ^a   Barroso, Inês ⁿ   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^a   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^c,i,bf   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

ⁱ BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j Medical Genetics Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine   (United States)

^k ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^m BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁿ WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^o CNR   (Italy)

^p PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^q ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^r UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^s KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^v LUND UNIVERSITY DIABETES CENTRE   (Sweden)

^w CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^y WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^z MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival   (United Kingdom)

^aa NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^ac IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^af LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^ag NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^ai FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

^aj Bioinformed Consulting Services   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^al UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^am SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^an UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^ap FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^aq NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^as TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^at QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^au LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^av UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^aw Savitaipale Health Center   (Finland)

^ax INRCA   (Italy)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^az LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^ba HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^bb UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^bc UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bd UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^be UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^bf HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DEAMINASE; DIOXYGENASE; FTO ENZYME; GLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE DEAMINASE 2; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN KCTD15; PROTEIN MTCH2; PROTEIN NEGR1; PROTEIN SH2; PROTEIN SH2B1; PROTEIN TMEM18; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT CONTROL;

ALLELES; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 58149163142     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.287     Document Type: Article

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